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On five bridges over the Danube, five strange and remarkable tales are told: tales of the sacrifices that are made for Art. For the painter, the sculptor, the writer and the composer, creation is inextricably entwined with violence, suffering and the darkest reaches of the psyche, and the bridge to enlightenment is the hardest of all to cross. Yet through the innocence of a dog all can be redeemed, in the miraculous climax of this complex and ...

Impossible Stories I is a collection of several of the author's finest works, including Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library (winner of the World Fantasy Award), and Steps through the Mist. The perfect introduction to the incredible world of Zoran Zivkovic. Impossible Stories might be approached as if one were inspecting a handsome piece of furniture, a cabinet in which each of any number of regularly sized an...

Unterweisung / Unterweisungsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich AdA Handwerk / Produktion / Gewerbe - Mechanische Berufe, Metall und Kunststoff, Note: 86 Punkte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Auszubildenden sollen durch die Unterweisung den Aufbau und das selbstständige Arbeiten mit der Bügelsäge erlernen. Kognitiver Bereich: Die Auszubildenden lernen die Benennung der Bestandteile der Handbügelsäge und den professionellen Umgang mit...

On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveler experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope. This volume also contains the novella "The Square, " an uplifting meditation on the restor...

Ten linked stories with resonant titles explore almost every conceivable aspect of human memory: the positive and the negative, the precious and the profane, the heavenly and the unbearably hellish. Zivkovic's deceptively simple tales anatomize the essence of what makes human beings tick, our passions, our vanities and yearnings, the very memories which make us who we are.

In what strange edifice of the imagination do you find a condemned cell, a hotel room and a hospital room? What kind of hotel offers a zinc mine, a meat-packing plant, a weapons factory and a cemetery of famous artists among its attractions? Why do four people commit suicide in the same bathroom and why does a literature professor cut up several of the greatest works of literature into a confetti of letters? In this wildly imaginative, wildly ...

A cycle of six thematically linked stories, droll renditions of the nightmares ensuing upon misplaced, or (of course) excessive, bibliophilia. A writer encounters a website where all his possible future books are on display, a lonely man faces an infinite flow of hardback books through his mailbox, an ordinary library turns by night into an archive of souls, the Devil sets about raising standards of infernal literacy, one book houses all books...

In this suite of eight stories, the three ages of woman - youth, midlife and senescence - engage in a complex and fruitful dance. A young Miss Tamara is lured by a series of postcards concealed in library books. A middle-aged Miss Tamara discovers that her new reading glasses turn the pages blank. An afternoon's reading is disturbed by the realization that all books have turned fatally toxic. A mysterious phone call leads to a book which blind...

A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy, a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty basement office, an old watchmaker with a dark, painful spot in his past that has haunted him for decades. The visitor has a unique but ambiguous time-gift for each one of them. His true identity is ...

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